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Brickell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
76% of Brickell Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Sterling Donor Advised Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Brickell Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $75k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $52,000 |
| THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MANHASSET | $1,500 |
| BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,500 |
| MERCATUS CENTER AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH ST FRANCISVILLE | $1,000 |
| CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD | $1,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | $1,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BEAUVOIR THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF YAZOO CITY | $800 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Brickell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +56%- TBTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK7× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +31%
- ACAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONSone grant, 2022 · $1k
- ESEPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FOFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMAone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Episcopal School in the City of New York and the most unlike its peers is Prime Finance Dispute Resolution and Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME FINANCE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brickell Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center — 1% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.